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Cake day: July 21st, 2023
  • DavidGarcia@feddit.nltoCyberpunk 2077@lemmy.world•Its Criminal how under-utilized the map is
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    12 hours ago

    You can really tell the game is basically a map demo. 90% of the map is done but only like 10% of the original quests and gameplay have been implemented vs their initial vision.

    Not that it’s not a fully featured game comparable to other AAA titles at this point.

    But still, for me the game plays like reading an essay where 90% of the text is missing.

    Maybe with Cyberpunk 3 they’ll be finally able to fully realize their vision without constraints. It sure as hell won’t be true for Cyberpunk 2.

  • DavidGarcia@feddit.nltoVideos@lemmy.ml•BlackRock: The Conspiracies You Don’t Know — More Perfect Union
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    7 days ago

    I know the video isn’t about that kind of conspiracy, but I find these similarities to esoteric lore fascinating:

    Mercator said there is a Black Rock (rupes nigra) at the North Pole that is responsible for compasses pointing north, surrounded by 4 islands and with the water draining into the Earth like a funnel.

    Also in the alchemical process of Magnum Opus or Great Work to create the Philosopher’s Stone, black rock could be the end product of nigredo. Many alchemists believed that as a first step in the pathway to the philosopher’s stone, all alchemical ingredients had to be cleansed and cooked extensively to a uniform black matter. This is also commonly represented by sol niger, the black sun.

    That is commonly translated into political thought by homogenizing the whole world. There’s the Nazi, Skull&Bones interpetation, burn the whole world until one Volk is left and then there’s the peaceful panhumanist interpretation.

    I wouldn’t be surprised if the name was actually chosen to represent the Nazi black sun, you know how elitists be.

  • DavidGarcia@feddit.nltoFediverse memes@feddit.uk•It is impressive how fast they release featuresEnglish
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    8 days ago

    I was wondering what the differences to Lemmy are, luckily they have this on their website:

    Differences between Lemmy and PieFed:

    Comments with -10 score are collapsed by default.

    Communities are organized into topics. See https://piefed.social/topics.

    Image-heavy communities can have a tiled/masonry view, like https://piefed.social/c/[email protected]

    People who get downvoted a lot end up with a ‘low reputation’ indicator next to their name. You’ll know it when you see it.

    Hide all posts based on keyword filters. Keyboard shortcuts.

    Upvotes in meme communities do not add to reputation.

    Better UI design (somewhat subjective!) Improved hotness ranking algorithm (subjective)

    Voting is private.

    Seems like a few nice QoL changes, but nothing substantial yet. We’ll have to see where it goes in the future.

    Personally I’d rather see a sort of P2P Lemmy that gives much more tools for community sovreignty.

    Much more automoderation tools, optional automatic deletion tools, custom scoring algorithms, a solid per-community user reputation system that mods can filter/rank posts by, powerful client side content filters (like ML sentiment or topic filters), etc. One that covers anything from private chats, to group chats, to discord-like communities, to fully private Lemmy-like communities to fully public Lemmy-like communities. All in a secure and private manner.

    Like a one stop shop for communication, that heavily emphasizes community and user sovreignty, covering anything from ephemeral chats to archival public content. I find the current ActivityPub ecosystem sorely lacking in those regards. We have some of those features but more bolted on rather than baked in.